Pune-based NCORD Health Card, a healthcare management company offering electronic health record system, eHealthCard, is looking forward to a turnover of USD 2 billion over next four years.
The healthcare start up is embarking on expansion with plans to tap one million users by 2017. Launched in Pune in October 2015, eHealthCard has 10,000 active user base so far. eHealthCard containing users' name, blood group, 16 digit identification number, uploads, stores and provides them health records anywhere, anytime. It also connects users to healthcare providers, advanced medical facilities and research centres globally.
Nilesh Kandalgaonkar, executive director, NCORD Health Card, said “We at NCORD have dedicated ourselves to improvise on the existing EHR technology further, by providing users the power to carry their health records on a portable and user friendly card. This card has been calibrated as per global standards and can be accessible in different languages, because of which, people would not have to face the trouble of not gaining immediate medical attention if required in a foreign land. Our uniquely programmed dynamic system enables healthcare access anywhere at anytime and has far reaching potential in the area of health monitoring and disease control.”
eHealthCard software is available on mobile and website. EhealthCard mobile app featuring EMR at one's fingertips, medications list, book appointments, access laboratory reports, view prescriptions, request for services facilitates faster diagnosis and treatment of patients.
ehealthCard offers a slew of benefits to users including reducing time required to maintain & keep track of medical records, providing 360 degree connectivity with all healthcare sectors, ensuring availability of medical data instantly during emergencies thereby facilitating quicker diagnosis leading to accurate treatment.
In a bid to upload ongoing and future medical records, patients are required to show eHealthCard to their healthcare provider, hospital who will login - wwwehealthcareusa.com and update their medical reports. Once report uploaded, NCORD team will digitize patients' data. Insurance data can also be uploaded.
Besides users, eHealthCard is of tremendous benefit to healthcare providers. It helps them book and manage patients' appointments, reduces paperwork involved in prescriptions and administrative activities. It offers back-up support for all reports. Doctors can track and check prolonged medical cases. It improves patients and healthcare provides interaction with effective communication and provides complete documentation and accurate, streamlined coding and billing from medico-legal perspectives.
EhealthCard helps insurance providers avoid faulty claims, provide better customer service, reduce dependency on TPA. This system can be a single point of contact between user, hospital and the insurance company so that the insurance company could access data easily & claim settlement process can be expedited.
EhealthCard is supportive of the government's vision to create a central data repository with healthcare information & health records of every individual. The government can track disease outbreak by monitoring the data repository & avoid epidemic situations. Monthly automatic MIS reports can be generated for planning health programmes.
The healthcare start up is in talks with Union Health Ministry for the same.
eHealthCard software has received both American and Indian copyrights and is an internationally patented product. The technology adheres to all international laws and standards including HIPAA, HL7 and the HITECH Act.